How close was that artist?

This close:



Rumor has it that a friend of the artist (Terrie Smith) showed Wendy this picture, with his thumb covering the signature. And that Wendy tried to remember when she had drawn it.. until the friend removed his thumb.

Works.

Surprisingly good too.

Is there anyone that can accurately replicated Wendy's work? Does such a person exist?

It is not that hard to draw her characters. They are designed to be able to be drawn by other people.

Lunakat wrote:

It is not that hard to draw her characters.  They are designed to be able to be drawn by other people.

Are they? Because I haven't found a single person that can acutely copy her style, at least on the internet. There are some that come very close but it's always no cigar.

There is something deceptively hard about drawing her characters, even though her style doesn't look that difficult to copy. If even one line is out of place, it seems to literally ruin the whole picture: at least, that's been my experience. Then again, I'm not that great of an attest anyway, so I guess you can take that with a grain of salt.

This is really shitty scan of a pencil drawing I did. I did this years ago-- and yes, I did look at and directly draw Shuna and Nightfall and the two puppies from the book-- because I had never drawn them before. But I did not trace anything. I just opened a book and looked at it. I did this in less than an hour to give to a friend because he likes Elfquest. And other than this-- i would suggest reading "Full Circle"-- the artist isn't Wendy.

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I wish I'd had a better scanner. But this was years ago and I was cheap back then. i have a better one now. (I think I photocopied it down and scanned it-which is even worse). Maybe I'll ask my friend if he still has the drawing and rescan it later. I don't have time now because we are going out of town tomorrow. But if you guys give me some requests-- i'll draw you a Wendy Pini style Elfquest scene next week (in pencil). Give me a scenario she has never drawn and I'll create it looking like her style.

ps-- the only Wavedancers I am familiar with are Sunstream's kid, the Broken One, Brill, Snakeskin and Brill's friend. Otherwise I don't know them by name or what they look like. So if you include Wavedancers-- make them those three. But otherwise, I'd rather not do Wavedancers.

Goodness, it's been ages since I've seen the 'Wendy is a god, none can be as masterful as she' attitude.

You should make an art thread Luna. I'd lurk a lot for that art.

Thanks! Yeah, I didn't make fanart because people accused me of tracing-- and I was kind of offended.

The thing about Wendy's characters is-- if you know how to draw, you should be able to draw them. She has construction sheets and everything with turnarounds online. They are well constructed, well designed and specifically designed to be animated.

Her character design is excellent. And any good character design can be broken down by someone who knows how to do that. But we don't even need to do that, because she's even done that for us and put it on the internet.

Think about how animation works. An entire studio (or multiple studios) of people need to be able to draw the same characters on model in various poses. How do you think they created any of the hand-drawn Disney animation (or any animation) without having the character's heads and bodies and eyes morph into different shapes onscreen? You get artists who know how to draw other people's characters. It's just a matter of having character construction and drawing "on model". You don't have one person, and only one person, who can animate an entire movie-- you get people who can draw on model.

I have no idea how or why the Pinis mostly ended up with such terrible artists. And yes-- absolutely people who cannot draw well. Their characters are very well constructed and very draw-able.  I guess they were going for either people willing to work for what they could pay, or just whoever could get the job done by the deadline.

An ElfQuest X-mas scene ... really drawn!

So beautiful! *bows to Lunakat*

Thanks!

If you guys really like-- I'll do more!

Say-- this is a pretty darn good Picknose, methinks:

http://www.deviantart.com/art/DnD-Paris-30-11-2016-Elfquest-649187248

Picknose on Deviantart

There's also a guy named "swordman" who did some of the perviest Elfquest art I've seen-- and I want you all to know I accidentally (very accidentally!) stumbled across this stuff-- also it is not safe for work and not for kids (no kids should look at it)-- but it's remarkably well drawn and the characters are solid... despite what they are doing to each other! Google at your own risk.

I also think this artist is pretty good. Her style and line-work are a little looser because, well, sketching in Photoshop-- but that aside, you can see she's got a solid understanding of how the characters are built:

http://marge-kinson.deviantart.com/art/2013-Elfquest-Fan-Art-Calendar-Spine-287767347

Argh I hate it when it when artists call themselves something incredibly generic. They're so hard to find.
Does swordman use really nice colours? I might have seen their work.

He does. It's really nice color, linework and characters are well drawn. And it's straight up smut. So if you are going to look for him-- be down to view that.

Lunakat wrote:

Thanks!

If you guys really like-- I'll do more!

Hurrah!

Lunakat wrote:

He does. It's really nice illustration. And it's straight up smut. So if you are going to look for him-- be down to view that.

Hmmm, I think I've seen their work. I can't find them now tho. I know they were on the old gallery but it's being remade at the moment.
*Fiddles around with wbm*

I wouldn't worry about it.

See if you can find other people who do the characters well!

Shadowpath wrote:

Goodness, it's been ages since I've seen the 'Wendy is a god, none can be as masterful as she' attitude.

But, that wasn't what I was saying at all...

*hugs* No you didn't, Relena.

I think Lunakat  is right - she has the experiance and "inside knowledge". A really good artist can copy WP's style and draw her characters the way she does. In case it is her/his job s/he gets paid for.
On the other side I firmly believe that a really good artist wishes to bring in their own style to a certein degree. An identical copy of WP's style wouldn't be what I wish for (unless it's a movie of course ... or a collaboration work on the same issue/storyline). I would be totally content if the guest artist hits the overall mood, the generic shape and beauty.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Lunakat, may I request a picture with Rayek, Leetah and Shen-shen? I'm thinking something from before the WRs, where Rayek and Leetah are in one of their "good spells" and Shen-shen is being a cheerfully pesky little sister, but whatever comes to your mind or pen.

Relena wrote:

Shadowpath wrote:

Goodness, it's been ages since I've seen the 'Wendy is a god, none can be as masterful as she' attitude.

But, that wasn't what I was saying at all...

Wasn't aiming at you.

Sure thing, Manga! I'll get to it after the first.

I really do like the Wild Hunt series-- I like that the art didn't try to imitate Wendy. It was just its own thing entirely. It was great-- and it really worked.